Latin American Travelers and Revolutionary China in the Global 1960s: A Story of (Dis)encounters
Date and Time
November 29, 2023
11:30AM - 11:30AM EST
Location
Common Room (#136), 2 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA,
Speaker Wei Ran, Associate Professor, Institute of Foreign Literature, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2023-24
Moderated by Mariano Siskind, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of Comparative Literature, Harvard University
In the Global 1960s, many Latin American leading intellectuals, such as Pablo Neruda, José Venturelli, Eduardo Galeano and Ricardo Piglia, visited Maoist China, which was regarded as an alternative to Soviet Union and Cuba’s bureaucratic systems. This talk tries to reconstruct the experiences of their (dis)encounters with revolutionary China in the 1960-70s, though travelogues, memoirs, documentaries, archival records, and contemporary novels.